Jiji Press. Japanese government-stockpiled rice released under no-bid contracts started to hit store shelves at reasonable prices in some areas in the country on Saturday, with the focus now on whether this would lead to price falls for other types of rice. Some retailers, including supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co., began selling government-stockpiled at some of […]
Source: IDK. The rice from the state reserves, which Agriculture Minister Shinjiro Koizumi called “old-old”, using the kanji for “old” four times, sold out in about an hour after Iris Ohyama launched its online sales. The doubling of the price of the staple food of the Japanese diet – rice – has become a serious […]
Korean food export company The O Global has signed a landmark agreement with Beisia, one of Japan’s top retail distributors, to export 200 tons of Korean rice to help ease Japan’s ongoing rice shortage. The contract represents the largest volume of rice ever exported by a private Korean company for general consumer sales in Japan. […]
With the average price of rice now doubled from the same period last year — reaching more than ¥4,000 for 5 kilograms at supermarkets — much attention is being paid to whether the ministry’s new approach will be effective. TOKYO — The agriculture ministry’s decision to sell state-held reserves of rice through “discretionary contracts,” in […]
Emergency reserves, high prices, rationing — how did problem get this far? By Mari Yamaguchi– Associated Press TOKYO — Rice is essential to Japanese culture, tradition and politics. People take pride in the oval-shaped sticky Japonica grain, which is still a staple even though total consumption has fallen over the decades. But since last summer, […]
TOKYO, May 28 (Bernama-Kyodo) – The Japanese government has pledged to supply reserve rice to rural areas at lower prices, in response to soaring retail costs and high demand from major retailers, Kyodo news agency reported. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries said on Wednesday that it will ensure the stockpiled rice is distributed […]
Yusaku Yoshikawa. Global instability, climate stress and small-scalefarming practices are all putting stress on the market. Will the price fall? Japan has seen unprecedented increases in the cost of rice in recent months, affecting both consumers and the food industry. The surge is prompting the country to re-evaluate rice as a staple food in terms […]
BSS. TOKYO, May 26, 2025 (BSS/AFP) – Japan’s new farm minister said Monday the country’s embattled government would release reserve rice directly to large retailers in an attempt to bring down prices for consumers after the recent spike. The cost of the staple has soared in recent months, creating a major headache for Japan’s unpopular […]
TOKYO, May 26 — Japan aims to drastically cut stockpiled rice prices to ¥2,000 (RM59.05) per five kg and speed up getting rice onto shop shelves as consumers suffer from sky-high staple grain costs, the farm ministry said today. Surging rice prices — due in part to crop damage from extreme heat and increasing demand […]
KYODO NEWS TOKYO- Nearly 60 percent of Japanese believe soaring rice prices will fall with the appointment of a new farm minister, following his predecessor’s sacking over a controversial remark about being gifted rice that angered consumers, a Kyodo News survey showed Sunday. In the two-day telephone poll conducted from Saturday, 59.8 percent expressed such […]
